{"id":27052,"date":"2026-04-24T10:12:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/?p=27052"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:18:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:18:33","slug":"sassa-payment-dates-explained-when-will-you-get-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/?p=27052","title":{"rendered":"SASSA Payment Dates Explained: When Will You Get Paid?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"p-rc_2e14d8002fc4ab88-63\">The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has confirmed the payment schedule for the 2026\/2027 financial year.<sup><\/sup> For May 2026, the dates are staggered to avoid congestion at ATMs and retailers.<sup><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SASSA Payment Dates Explained: When Will You Get Paid?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"p-rc_2e14d8002fc4ab88-64\">SASSA pays permanent grants in a specific order every month to ensure the system remains efficient:<sup><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Older Persons Grant:<\/strong> This includes any grants linked to these accounts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Disability Grant:<\/strong> Paid the following working day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Children\u2019s Grants:<\/strong> Paid after the disability grants.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>SRD R370 Grant:<\/strong> These payments are processed during the final week of the month after bank verification.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>May 2026 Dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Older Persons: <strong>Tuesday, 5 May<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Disability: <strong>Wednesday, 6 May<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Children: <strong>Thursday, 7 May<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has confirmed the payment schedule for the 2026\/2027 financial year. For May 2026, the dates are staggered to avoid congestion at ATMs and retailers. SASSA Payment Dates Explained: When Will You Get Paid? SASSA pays permanent grants in a specific order every month to ensure the system remains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_25071586472533619_109551237394069":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"facebook_25071586472533619_109551237394069","service":"facebook","timestamp":1777026107,"status":"success"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"SASSA Payment Dates Explained: When Will You Get Paid?","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[649,603,602],"tags":[329,669],"class_list":{"0":"post-27052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-how-to-guide","8":"category-current-affairs-newsroom","9":"category-newsroom","10":"tag-current-affairs","11":"tag-sassa"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27098,"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27052\/revisions\/27098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricansun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}